California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 6 - Postcertification Procedures for Imminently Dangerous Persons

• Section 5300.
  At the expiration of the 14-day period of intensive treatment, a person may be confined for further treatment pursuant to the provisions of this article...
• Section 5300.5.
  For purposes of this article:(a) “Custody” shall be construed to mean involuntary detainment under the provisions of this part uninterrupted by any period of unconditioned release...
• Section 5301.
  (a) At any time during the 14-day intensive treatment period the professional person in charge of the licensed health facility, or his or her designee, may...
• Section 5302.
  At the time of filing of a petition for postcertification treatment the court shall advise the person named in the petition of his right to...
• Section 5303.
  The court shall conduct the proceedings on the petition for postcertification treatment within four judicial days of the filing of the petition and in accordance...
• Section 5303.1.
  For the purposes of any hearing or jury trial held pursuant to this article, the judge of the court in which such hearing or trial...
• Section 5304.
  (a) The court shall remand a person named in the petition for postcertification treatment to the custody of the State Department of State Hospitals or to...
• Section 5305.
  (a) Any person committed pursuant to Section 5300 may be placed on outpatient status if all of the following conditions are satisfied:(1) In the evaluation of the...
• Section 5306.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 5113, if the provisions of Section 5309 have been met, the superintendent, the professional person in charge of the hospital providing 90-day involuntary...
• Section 5306.5.
  (a)  If at any time during the outpatient period, the outpatient treatment supervisor is of the opinion that the person receiving treatment requires extended inpatient...
• Section 5307.
  If at any time during the outpatient period the public officer, pursuant to Section 5114, is of the opinion that the person is a danger...
• Section 5308.
  Upon the filing of a request for revocation of outpatient status under Section 5306.5 or 5307 and pending the court’s decision on revocation, the person...
• Section 5309.
  (a) Nothing in this article shall prohibit the superintendent or professional person in charge of the hospital in which the person is being involuntarily treated from...

Last modified: October 22, 2018